Healing Through Remembering

23/11/2009

HTR launching Conversational Workshops on Dealing with the Past

Healing Through Remembering is launching Conversational Workshops on Dealing with the Past, an outreach programme offering in-depth opportunities for considering wide-ranging issues around dealing with the past.

The project will be launched at four venues during week beginning November 30th.

Please click here for full details.

Each event will begin with tea and coffee and will be followed by a buffet lunch.

The event will provide an opportunity to meet with the Healing Through Remembering delivery partners and those that have already taken part in workshops.

To confirm attendance please contact Claire Smith at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or by calling 02890238844.

29/09/2009

Storytelling and Narrative Work - Principles and Practice

Following the launch in June 2009 of the HTR document Storytelling and Narrative Work - Ethical Principles HTR welcomes Paul Costello, Director of the Center for Narrative Studies, Washington, USA to host a seminar.

Topics will include:
“What is the story of the story?”
“What happens when a story outlives its usefulness?”
“How does one change a story?
“How does one grow a new story?”

The seminar will take place at 3pm on Wednesday 7th October in Healing Through Remembering, 17a Ormeau Avenue, Belfast, BT2 8HD
This seminar will be of particular interest to those who are involved in, or considering, storytelling and narrative work.

To book a place please contact Claire Smith on 02890238844 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Please click here for a PDF flyer for the event.

24/06/2009

HTR launch Ethical Principles for Storytelling and Narrative work

Storytelling and narrative work is increasingly promoted as a way of dealing with the past relating to the conflict in and about Northern Ireland.  It is therefore timely that Healing Through Remembering [HTR] is offering a set of principles for storytelling and narrative work related to the conflict.  It is hoped that these will assist the development of good practice and help protect against negative outcomes.

Healing Through Remembering launched Ethical Principles - Storytelling and Narrative on June 24 2009.  The document outlines a set of 20 ethical principles for storytelling and narrative work connected to the conflict in and about Northern Ireland.  The principles have been drawn from the work of the Healing Through Remembering Storytelling Sub Group.

The document has two sections. This first section explains the context in which the principles have been developed. The issues around the different definitions and types and methods connected to storytelling and narrative work are discussed. This section situates storytelling and narrative work related to the conflict within HTR’s overall approach to dealing with the past. The second section describes 20 ethical principles that should inform and guide storytelling and narrative work. These are grouped into three clusters drawn from the core values for dealing with past that were developed for HTR’s submission to the Consultative Group on the Past in January 2008. This framework seeks to link the core values for dealing with the past to
the specific ethical principles for storytelling and narrative work.

Claire Hackett, Chair of Storytelling Sub Group, quote: ‘In many post conflict settings storytelling and narrative work is recognized as one of the elements for dealing with the past.  The increase in this kind of work locally has seen a growing demand for standards and best practice.  We hope the Ethical Principles will find a wide audience and be both an aid to and a stimulus for beneficial storytelling and narrative work.’

Many believe that it is important to record experiences of conflict as a historical resource and as a way of enabling society to deal with the past.  HTR recognises that there is a real need for the development of shared ethical principles, as experience demonstrates that storytelling and narrative work is neither easy nor simple

Kate Turner, Director of HTR, quote: ‘Healing Through Remembering hopes that the principles will enable a wider debate about the contribution that storytelling and narrative work can make to dealing with the past. As more and more groups consider storytelling and narrative work as a method of dealing with the past, it is hoped that the Principles will lead to shared learning and be a useful tool in working through the ethical dilemmas that arise.’
Healing Through Remembering, (HTR) has received funding from the European Regional Development Fund through the PEACE III Programme to further its work on dealing with the past .

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  HTR Ethical Principles for Storytelling and Narrative Work

   

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27/09/2005

Storytelling Audit Launch

The first in a series of new reports from Healing Through Remembering was launched on the 18th October 2005.

The report, “Storytelling Audit: An audit of personal story, narrative and testimony initiatives related to the conflict in and about Northern Ireland”, was commissioned by the HTR Storytelling sub group. Grainne Kelly compiled the report which details 30 storytelling projects throughout Northern Ireland and concludes with a chapter of recommendations arising from the information gathered.

The report was officially launched on Tuesday 18th October at the offices of Healing Through Remembering with a short presentation by Grainne Kelly on the audit . For further information please contact Kate Turner at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).